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some of the things I read while eating breakfast in antisocial isolation
Can You Outsmart a Raccoon?
Recent studies show just how tricky these trash pandas can be, from opening locks to nabbing DoorDash orders.
The more we try to keep raccoons out of our trash bins, the better they get at breaking in. Embiggenable.
ON A QUIET EVENING IN Laramie, Wyoming, what looks like a lone file cabinet sits near an abandoned barn. As the sun dips below the horizon, a commotion begins. Soon, there are paws scratching and teeth gnashing against aluminum and wood as fuzzy butts bump each other out of the way.
Like desperate high school freshmen who’ve forgotten their locker codes, raccoons jostle and fiddle with various locks guarding cubbies full of delicious dog food and sardine treats. Other raccoons wait in the background, ready to pounce on any unattended scraps. A skunk wandering into the ruckus gets shoved aside by the masked bandits.
This adorable anecdote was part of a research project detailed in July in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences and one of several recent examples of our changing understanding of raccoon intelligence. While many other species around the world are in decline, raccoons are actually thriving, and do particularly well in urban areas, says lead author Lauren Stanton, a cognitive ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley. A large part of their success is due to their adaptability to new challenges and opportunities, whether that’s nesting in cozy chimneys, invading chicken coops, or breaking into trash bins—something that’s earned them the nickname “trash pandas.”
Raccoons are strong—they can push a cinder block off a trash can—and tenacious. The more we do to keep them out, the more skills they learn for breaking in, leading to a cognitive arms race between people and raccoons. …
The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s marauding hippos?
The Colombian drug lord’s exotic menagerie fell apart after his death, and now wild hippos are breeding out of control.
A hippo at Hacienda Nápoles park in Colombia, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.
In the steamy heat of the afternoon, Yamit Diaz Romero steered our motorised longboat around overhanging bamboo branches and islets in the Claro Cocorná Sur River in Colombia. Red howler monkeys swung from the cables of a footbridge and screeched in the jungle. Herons, snowy egrets, brown pelicans and parakeets darted across the coffee-coloured water and soared over our heads. The river is known as a destination for whitewater rafting. But these days it’s also become the scene of a more unsettling natural phenomenon.
Joining me on the vessel was Alejandro Mira, a veterinarian from Medellín, and Joshua Wilson, an American jiu-jitsu champion and world traveller who had hitched a ride with Mira and me and was sharing the experience with his followers on social media. Fishers motoring from the opposite direction gave warnings to Romero about what lay ahead. After an hour, the Claro Cocorná spilled into the Magdalena River, the longest in Colombia, which originates in the Andes and flows north for 1,600km before emptying into the Caribbean Sea.
Romero, a solid man with black-framed spectacles and a pink camouflage shirt, scanned the river and pointed straight ahead. Near the opposite bank, about 250 metres away, three pairs of grey ears flicked, and beady eyes darted above the water line. The boatman circled cautiously, then winced when Wilson suddenly launched an aerial drone and banged on the boat’s gunwale to get the animals’ attention. One raised a gigantic, bulbous head and opened its mouth, exposing a sharp set of canines. “Tourists think this is cute,” Romero told me in Spanish. “But it’s a sign of aggression.”
You might not expect to encounter wild hippopotamuses, the huge, semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa, in the rivers – and ponds, swamps, lakes, forests and roads – of rural Colombia. Their increasingly ubiquitous presence here is an unlikely legacy of Pablo Escobar, the infamous drug baron from Medellín. Decades ago, Escobar spent part of his vast fortune assembling a menagerie of exotic animals, including elephants, giraffes, zebras, ostriches and kangaroos, at his hacienda outside Doradal, a town about 10 miles west of the Magdalena. After he was shot dead in Medellín by Colombian police in 1993, local people poured on to the property and tore apart Escobar’s villa in search of rumoured caches of money and weapons. Afterward, the hacienda sank into ruin. In 1998, the government seized the property and eventually transferred most of the animals to domestic zoos. But several hippos – most sources say three females and one male – were considered too dangerous to move. And that’s how Colombia’s current trouble began. …
Study: Crows Intelligent Enough To Steal Trinkets, But Foolish Enough To Think Material Goods Will Solve Problems https://t.co/ecWRmOCWS5
— The Onion (@TheOnion) August 29, 2024
Famous Scientists Who Were Hilariously Wrong
Even the most renowned scientists of history aren’t immune to a little theor-oopsing.
Science is a process, and that sometimes means that stuff we thought was true (the flat earth, hysteria, plague-curing farts) turns out to be wrong. In fact, even the most renowned scientists of history aren’t immune to a little theor-oopsing.
5. Einstein Didn’t Believe in Black Holes
It was his theory of general relativity that led us to them in the first place, but Albert Einstein displayed a “resistance bordering on the irrational” toward the idea of black holes. When physicist Karl Schwarzchild wrote to him to let him know, “Hey, your stuff implies the existence of an infinitely collapsing star, but that’s way dumb, lol,” Einstein was like, “Yeah, no doubt,” and refused to ever consider the idea again. …
Ethiopia’s Beetle mania: how an entire country fell in love with Volkswagen’s quirky classic
A common sight on the streets of the capital, the durable vehicles are workhorses for some, a part of the family for others, while enthusiasts restore them to their former glory.
A Beetle parked in a residential street in Addis Ababa. ‘Ethiopians love Volkswagens because they grew up with them’
When Yared Agonafer, an Ethiopian gold and silver merchant, set out to buy a car five years ago, he settled quickly on the model: a 1977 Volkswagen Beetle. The low price was its main draw, but nostalgia motivated him too.
“My father had a Beetle when I was a kid,” says Yared, who recalls being ferried to school and family parties in the car. “Whenever I drive mine, I have these memories. I love it.”
The Beetle was pioneered in 1930s Germany, the product of Adolf Hitler’s desire for a cheap and reliable vehicle for the masses. In the decades after the second world war, millions were shipped abroad, and the car became an unlikely symbol of hippy counterculture. It held the record for most vehicles sold until about 2000 when it was overtaken by the Toyota Corolla.
A child plays in a parked Beetle during a gathering of City Cruise enthusiasts in Addis Ababa.
Beetles arrived in Ethiopia during the reign of Haile Selassie. When the emperor was deposed by communist soldiers in 1974, he was bundled into a Beetle on the steps of his palace and driven away to imprisonment.
Today, Beetles are still a common sight in Addis Ababa, the capital, where they can be spotted negotiating cobbled residential streets or parked in rush-hour traffic. Their enduring popularity is a quirk of Ethiopia’s distorted car market, where import duties of up to 200% mean secondhand vehicles are wildly expensive. A 25-year-old Toyota can fetch 1.3m Ethiopian birr (£9,200) for example. By contrast, Beetles cost about 250,000 birr (£1,750). …
CAUTION: Some language may not be appropriate for work or children.
Here;s me commentary on Cats Being Dodgy (episode 6)! Cheers to all the legends that send in cat vids.
It’s easy to forget because he’s round, but Maru’s 17. So I carefully chose a cat tower that Maru could safely climb up and down!
[The good point of this cat tower]
・There are many steps, so even a senior cat can go up and down easily.
・Stable without wobbling.
[A bit disappointing]
・The fabric fur is a little long, so it looks hot in summer.
・There are few poles that can be used to scratch.
THE LAST TAB . . .
You Were My First… And Your Nonsense Kept Me In The Closet
Coming to terms with my part in it.
It’s late at night, rehearsal is over, and we’re the only ones left.
Oh my God, it’s going to happen, I’m going to kiss a man.
My teeth are chattering as you keep stepping closer. I’d heard of that. Seen it in cartoons. But who knew that extreme anxiousness could literally lead to teeth chattering?
I’m 21 and still a virgin, in more ways than one.
Never been with a woman, never been with a man. (I’d kissed a girl once or twice, but that’s it). Sexual repression and religious indoctrination were so strong, I’d deliberately participated in too many college extracurriculars so as to have a believable excuse for not having a girlfriend, not having time for dating.
But now my stomach is in knots, in deep anticipation as you stand before me, that look in your eye.
You’re older, more experienced, and we’ve been doing this scary-to-me flirtation dance for three months, and now, oh my God, it’s happening.
You lean in for my first kiss, my first night of intimacy with a man. And thus begins that oh-so-confusing handful of months of on-again, off-again fun, obsessive behavior, lies, rationalizations and maneuvers.
You were my first, but you scared me right back into the closet. …
Ed. More tomorrow? Possibly. Probably. Maybe. Likely, if I find nothing more barely uninteresting at all to do.
Ed., etc. I hadn’t prepared for this today.
ONE MORE THING:
He ruined the bathroom and his marriage pic.twitter.com/4GOs0XLTRS
— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) August 31, 2024
